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What is a battleship?

What is a battleship? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (military) Large capital warship displacing tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with big guns. Battleships are now obsolescent, replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles. Types: dreadnought, pre-dreadnought.
  2. Non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests.
  3. A guessing game played on grid paper, see Battleship (game)
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At sea, he served in a battleship, an aircraft carrier, in cruisers, destroyers, frigates, and a minesweeper.
A situation might call for an Arclite barrage from a division of siege tanks or a deadly battleship salvo of a targeted area.
They also learnt the lesson that the aircraft carrier rather than the battleship was to be crucial to victory in naval warfare.
The Royal Navy will attempt to stem the flow of oil from the sunken Royal Oak battleship by carrying out tests on a replica of the vessel.
This is a legacy of the Second World War, in which the aircraft carrier replaced the battleship as the capital ship of fleets.
The young pilots of Galactica's battleship fleet are perpetually zonked on uppers.

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